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By Daria Sito-Sucic<\/p>\n

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s parliament on Friday confirmed the new government of the autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation in a tight vote ordered by Bosnia’s international envoy as protesters outside chanted “treason”.<\/p>\n

Following a devastating war in the 1990s in which about 100,000 people died, Bosnia was split into two ethnically based autonomous regions, the federation and the Serb Republic, linked by a weak central government. <\/p>\n

The federation had been unable to form a government since an election last October because the largest Bosniak party, the SDA, has blocked any proposals that did not include its ministers.<\/p>\n

Former German politician Christian Schmidt, who has vast powers as international High Representative in post-war Bosnia, on Thursday amended the constitution so that only two of three federation presidency members needed to support a proposed government to forward it to parliament, thus cutting out the presidency member from SDA.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken supported Schmidt’s move, saying that Bosnians need a “functional, efficient, and accountable government”.<\/p>\n

“The United States fully supports the High Representative’s actions today to help Bosnia and Herzegovina move towards a Euro-Atlantic integration,” Blinken said in a tweet. <\/p>\n

Fifty-one out of parliament’s 98 deputies voted for the government, one abstained and two were against, while 44 walked out of the chamber failing to cast their vote.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of protesters, mainly SDA supporters, waved Bosnian flags and chanted “treason” in front of the regional parliament in the capital of Sarajevo.<\/p>\n

Echoing SDA complaints, they accused Schmidt of an anti-Bosniak bias and denied the legitimacy of a government they said was imposed by a foreigner. <\/p>\n

The SDA dominated the outgoing federation government which remained in caretaker capacity since 2015 over similar political bickering after an election in 2018.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Nick Macfie)<\/p>\n

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